Talk:Mini-Neptune

Reliable sources for term 'Mini-Neptune'

It seems 2-3 websites randomely used term 'Mini-Neptune' and article is created out of it. I don't find any sources to identify that this term is accepted and used by Astronomers. neo (talk) 14:20, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Gas dwarf" seems to be a more common term. There's also an article on that topic, so I'm not sure why this one even exists. 203.57.211.237 (talk) 23:59, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well, just looking at that I can't say the same: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?db_key=AST&db_key=PRE&qform=AST&arxiv_sel=astro-ph&arxiv_sel=cond-mat&arxiv_sel=cs&arxiv_sel=gr-qc&arxiv_sel=hep-ex&arxiv_sel=hep-lat&arxiv_sel=hep-ph&arxiv_sel=hep-th&arxiv_sel=math&arxiv_sel=math-ph&arxiv_sel=nlin&arxiv_sel=nucl-ex&arxiv_sel=nucl-th&arxiv_sel=physics&arxiv_sel=quant-ph&arxiv_sel=q-bio&sim_query=YES&ned_query=YES&adsobj_query=YES&aut_logic=OR&obj_logic=OR&author=&object=&start_mon=&start_year=&end_mon=&end_year=&ttl_logic=AND&title=mini+neptune&txt_logic=OR&text=&nr_to_return=200&start_nr=1&jou_pick=ALL&ref_stems=&data_and=ALL&group_and=ALL&start_entry_day=&start_entry_mon=&start_entry_year=&end_entry_day=&end_entry_mon=&end_entry_year=&min_score=&sort=SCORE&data_type=SHORT&aut_syn=YES&ttl_syn=YES&txt_syn=YES&aut_wt=1.0&obj_wt=1.0&ttl_wt=0.3&txt_wt=3.0&aut_wgt=YES&obj_wgt=YES&ttl_wgt=YES&txt_wgt=YES&ttl_sco=YES&txt_sco=YES&version=1 By the way "Mini-neptune" is a more clear term, instead, "Gas-dwarf" can lead to confussion for those with not enough knowledge of astronomy, this is the reason by the first name is more used/popular. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.176.157.65 (talk) 13:55, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Gas dwarf article

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This article, and the Gas dwarf one, are clearly referring to the same type of object. This article even gives "gas dwarf" as a synonym for "mini-Neptune" (while, strangely enough, linking to that article at the exact same time). Each page has some information on the topic that the other doesn't though, so I think it would be worth taking the best parts of each article and merging under one of the two names. 203.57.211.237 (talk) 00:10, 18 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]